North America, East Coast, Massachusetts : Gloucester Harbour

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FORTH AMERICA
EAST COAST
MASSACHUSETTS

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GLOUCESTER

HARBOUR

FROM THE TTNTTED STATES COAST SURVEY

1854

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Springs rise lof, Neaps 81feet,
g- gravel., lid. hard. m.r/uul, r.rock. s. sand, s h.shdls, sf .soft.
Variation, in 1862 . increasing 4 'annually.

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SAILING DIRECTIONS

Approaching Gloucester from Cape Arm, beware of the Londoner, a rode 200y** in extent, £ a.
mile SJE.byE. from Thatchers I* South L* _ There is a channel to the West *4 of a mile wide, with
6 &6 f™, but strangers should pass to the East* not approaching the Lights nearer than one
mile, till they bear N.W. - With Thatcher’s l*L*f in one bearingNbyE.$E. one mile distant, steer
S.W.by W£W.hve miles till East P*Light bears nearly North,haul round the F* to the North*
and West*, keeping £ a mile from shore to dear East Point Ledge and Dog Bar.

To enter Saudi East Harbour Bring Ten Pound Light to bear NNE. 4 E. and run tor it, when
within £ a mile, or halfway between it and Blade Bess Point, steerEN.E.£E.towards Long Beach
to Anchorage in 5 and 6 muddy bottom .

To enter Inner Harbour Bring Ten Pound Lt to bear N.E. & steer N.E $N. passing cm Port-hand
of Bound Bock Shoal and Ten Pound Ledge, when Ten Pound _£f bears E.S.E. distant 300y^f,
steer N. E.by E.^E .into Inner Harbour.

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